[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doitright:
What the frig are you talking about?

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/general/root-t3231211

---------- Post added at 07:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:38 PM ----------

I'm not sure how you think you can accomplish that.... are you talking about app-ops? If so, do you realize that that would only block the android application and not the actual binary? The daemon process has unrestricted access to the kernel and cannot be blocked.

---------- Post added at 07:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:40 PM ----------

Two words for you: OPEN SOURCE.

Kind of the whole point of it is that it isn't dependent on any single person. Multiple people work on it, multiple people check each other's work, and if that one person stops working on it, the project isn't lost.

---------- Post added at 07:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:42 PM ----------

FYI: PHH and I work on the *same* fork of Superuser. I've been pretty lax on it lately due to growing family, but intend to put some more hours into it soon. We aren't competing with each other at all, but rather working on improvements to the same thing. So don't think of it as being along the same lines, but rather *with*.

And also, I think its probably important for me to also point out that Pierre has certainly put a lot more hours into it than I have. Nevertheless, everything useful is useful.

---------- Post added at 07:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:46 PM ----------

I haven't actually looked at CM's selinux policy in depth. I *suspect* that they probably go permissive in their su-equivalent context.

What you might want to look at, are custom roms that, rather than "shipping" with one or the other, **DON'T** ship with ANY. I know for one that Omnirom ships WITHOUT root, and while they may recommend supersu, you can use anything.

I'm not sure if my stock-ish boot images will work properly with omnirom. You can try it? If not, you could also try PHH's update.zip installation method.

Personally, I prefer omnirom over cyanogenmod. CM is... very unstable, they are too fast and uncontrolled with the "additions", and adds in certain things that are spyware-ish. Omnirom is more balanced. Far less aggressive, but rather focused on bringing in actual useful features rather than blinging the crap out of it.

---------- Post added at 08:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:54 PM ----------

While I don't agree with the choice to use supersu, I absolutely agree with this statement and perspective. Those building custom rom's don't owe anything to anybody, and obviously can make it however they like personally. If that happens to line up with the needs or wants of some group of end users, then those end users benefit from the generosity of whoever is sharing it. If not, then there are others sharing their work, and of course, there is the option to run your own builds.

Having said that, I don't think that the statement was actually meant in quite the way it came off. I think it was meant a little more softly, that from an end user point of view, options are nice.

Frankly, the only ones who actually *owe* you anything, in terms of the operating system, is GOOGLE. That is who you paid for the support by purchasing the product. Of course, that only applies to Nexus branded phones, if you buy something from someone else, they are the ones who owe you support.